>>2065376the type of dna passed from mother to daughter in iceland is something like 50% celtic, whereas the type passed from father to son is only 20% or so.
>The Irish were there in numbers when the settlement of Iceland got underway some time around 800AD. Genetic analysis has shown that a quarter of the men and up to half of the women among the founding population would have been of "Gaelic" origin.>The study showed that between 20 and 25 per cent of Icelandic founding males had Gaelic ancestry, with the remainder having Norse ancestry, Mr Helgason said. These findings match up with earlier work done by Mr Helgason which looked at mitocondrial DNA in women. This DNA is only passed from mother to daughter and so gives a picture of female lineages, he said. The mitocondrial work showed that about half of Iceland's founding females were of Gaelic ancestry.it's not a story, it's genetic evidence. also i think it's more like 10% of our blood is Scandinavian (from norway and that area), and they cant really tell apart danish dna from anglo dna, because the angles and danes were very genetically similar to begin with.
